CR2024 PROGRAM

SHORT PAPERS

Short-Papers

July 5-7, 2024, Hybrid

Session 1

The Syncretic Mind: Beyond Spirituality

Chair: Dr. Michelle Lewis-King

Topic: Session 1 The Syncretic Mind: Beyond Spirituality Chair: Dr. Michelle Lewis-King

Time: Jul 5, 2024 07:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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53 Quantum Relational Spaces: AI, Qi, the Body and the Biofield

Michelle Lewis-King

michellemlewisking@gmail.com

Abstract

This talk explores the intersections between contemporary biofield research, traditional Chinese medical concepts of qi and clinical therapeutic practices to balance qi interaction both within and external to the body, quantum theories of interconnectedness, and consciousness, using artificial intelligence (AI) to syncretically integrate these practices into new advancements. By examining the body's organ networks, the role of consciousness, and their interactions within the broader biofield, this presentation seeks to provide a novel understanding of the human body as an integrated and dynamic interactive system. This approach offers a holistic view that incorporates both traditional and indigenous cosmological approaches to technological developments in tandem with emergent scientific inquiry. AI (development of machine learning models trained on clinical medicine data as well as models trained on body mapping and imaging) will be used as a tool for bringing these perspectives together into new practices that may advance instrumentation or diagnostics and significantly contribute to a quantum development of art-medicine.

36 Convergence of healing meditations, somatic practices, and consciousness reframing within the realms of somatic healing, indigenous wisdom, and Bulgarian folklore.

Petja Ivanova

petjarossenova@gmail.com

Abstract

This presentation of an artistic research process delves into the convergence of healing meditations, somatic practices, and consciousness reframing within the realms of somatic healing, Indigenous wisdom, and Bulgarian folklore. Through personal experiences and scholarly inquiry, the presenter explores the transformative potential of rituals such as the Nestinari and their profound implications for understanding consciousness and healing journeys. Drawing from the presenter's lived experiences of navigating severe anxiety and encountering synchronistic events, the re-search sheds light on the intricate interplay between magical consciousness, psychic ways of knowing, somatic healing modalities, and the transformative power of love as a form of communication. By challenging traditional Western paradigms and embracing an eco-conscious perspective, the study advocates for an anti-computational framework rooted in land-wa-ter communication, sensitivity, and personalized meaning-making where consciousness seems to exist between the land, the water, and the human body - if one knows how to access it.

6 QIU ANXIONG "NEW CLASSICS OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS": REMIXING BUDDHISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Boyu Guo

boyuguo@outlook.com

Abstract

Qiu Anxiong's anime trilogy, "New Classics of Mountains and Seas," presents a surreal world of hybrid creatures and urban decay, offering a poignant commentary on the consequences of technological symbiosis. Critics applaud Qiu's symbolic language for its insight into the impact of new technology on nature and humanity. Against cyberpunk visuals, ancient Chinese poetry and Buddhist philosophy infuse the work with themes of emptiness, impermanence, and suffering. This synthesis reflects a syncretic approach to art, bridging spirituality, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, challenging traditional understandings of technical consciousness.

27 ARCHETYPES OF A NEW MODEL OF REALITY?

Aurora Del Rio, Aalto University,

aurora.delrio@aalto.fi

Abstract

A decade-long collaboration with Carl Gustav Jung that resulted in the theorization of a new model of reality. The so-called “Pauli-Jung conjecture” envisioned the mental-psychological and the material-physical phenomena as complementary aspects of a wider, holistic system of reality. This paper presents current research based on this theorization and finally introduces artwork positions with the hypothesis that art could play a role in representing and shaping this new model.

29 OPERA MEDIA TRANSIS: PERCEPTION - REPRESENTATION - CONSCIOUSNESS

Aura Balanescu

aurabalanescu@yahoo.com

Abstract

Opera media transis contains the premises of: #Trans-perception - a synesthesia of the inner view that involves an imperium of senses / a total perception of hyperreality in contrast to the fragmentary outer view of the objectual world. #Trans-representation based on the total perception - a ghost image/sound/tactile/kinaesthesia that stems from the implosion of left-right retinal disparity but also of classical and anticlassical visual pyramids of representation / a total perspective. #Trans-consciousness based on the total perception and the total perspective - a synesthesis (thesis + antithesis) arising from the implosion of rational and irrational thinking / a total thinking.

41 Interactive Fluidity: AI's Impact on Art, Technology, and Self-Identity

Mujin Bao

LIXINBAO@ICLOUD.COM

Abstract

This study introduces a new theoretical framework—the concept of "fluidity"—aimed at exploring the complex interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) across the intersecting fields of art, technology, and society. The research incorporates the concept of "fluidity" into narrative and visual studies to explore how AI assists humans in making decisions in complex or unknown environments, and how such collaboration shapes our self-identity and subjectivity.

Session 2

Artificial Time, Scale, and Space & Transcendent AI: on Artificial Consciousness

Chair: Dr. Luisa Paraguai

Topic: Session 2 Artificial Time, Scale, and Space & Transcendent AI: on Artificial Consciousness Chair: Dr. Luisa Paraguai

Time: Jul 7, 2024 08:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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56 THE "NOTATIONS.TRANSITIONS" (2023) ARTWORK

Luisa Paraguai

luisa.donati@puc-campinas.edu.br

Abstract:

By understanding topography as the language of writing landscapes and digital photogrammetry as the technology that maps everyday life, we propose to describe the “notations.transitions” (2023) artwork in progress. The topographic landscape is dynamic by creating an algorithmic logic to produce images from photographic data.

28 FUTURE-ORIENTED COLLABORATION MODEL BETWEEN HUMAN AND AI: THE ROLE ASSIGNMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF AI AGENT

Rui Wu and Guojun Zhang

2541058440@qq.com

Abstract:

This paper examines the future-oriented collaboration between humans and AI agents, focusing on role assignment and organizational dynamics within multi-agent systems. It presents a case study where an AI team, led by a human, completes complex tasks through coordinated roles. The research identifies challenges in agent behavior and system functionality, proposing solutions like a core scheduling agent and long-term memory integration. The study emphasizes the importance of control, interaction, and adaptability in AI systems, with implications for smart applications across various sectors.

30 MORE THAN MERE MACHINES

Silvia Ruzanka

ruzans@rpi.edu

Abstract:

This paper proposes a reorientation of algorithms, artificial intel-ligfence, and computation in terms of care. I examine representations of AI and robots in science fiction films in terms of care, tracing their process of coming into being from code through embodiment and lan guage to engagement in the world. These examples of speculative arti-ficial consciousness can each be understood through ideas of care, first through Heidegger’s concept of care and concern as central to Dasein, and then through the care ethics of Joan Tronto, Berenice Fisher, and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa.

62 Extra-somatization or Unconscious Automatism

Fernando Fogliano

fernandofogliano@gmail.com

Abstract:

The history of technology is also the history of how culture has enabled the externalization of human potential through tools and machines. The advent of computers continues this expansion into the environment, or extra-somatization, of our brains and cognitive abilities. This study explores how automated systems, particularly those using Artificial Intelligence in interactive artworks, can be seen as an extension of a specific aspect of cognitive processes: unconscious automatism. Computational languages are central to this process, which is part of a phenomenon of cultural complexity. The aim is to reflect on the creative role played by intelligent automatic processes in interactive systems, viewed as technological realizations of complex unconscious actions—a kind of machinic gesturality, stemming from a machinic unconscious.

47 AESTHETIC APPROACHES TO SYNTHETIC MEDIA: ART AND AI

Olga Majcen Linn and Sunčica Ostoić,

omajcen@gmail.com

ostoic.suncica@gmail.com

Abstract:

The paper examines particular strategies and tactics that artists employ when using AI. These strategies are analyzed through selected artworks to exemplify techno-neutral, techno-optimist, and techno-pessimist approaches toward the use and impact of AI on recent art. Included are contemporary artists, who use AI as a tool, as well as artists from the field of new media art, who use it as a medium. Refik Anadol, Jake Elwes, Lauren Lee McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, Trevor Paglen, Špela Petrič, Tomo Savić-Gecan, and Birk Schmithüsen exemplify fundamental artistic strategies: digital embrace, discerning detachment, insightful gaze, and their specific tactics.

24 The psyche as material for quantum consciousness during decision-making.

SyLVIE HERROUET and Alain LIORET

herrouet.sylvie@gmail.com

Abstract:

Because Subatomic study allows us to go deep into the world of matter, it allows us to perceive our own limits and the immeasurability of the quantum mystery. But it is the mystery of interface between the phenomenon of entanglement and decoherence that questions reality. Is reality before or after the decoherence? Is decoherence the limit, the passage from one world to another one? Does the observer make the reality? is the reality inside or outside the observer? Exploring the way we understand the reality of nature on the atomic scale with the mathematical concepts of quantum mechanics, the "superposition principle" shows that a particle can exist simultaneously in multiple probable and uncertain states and that different configurations of the world can thus be superposed.

45 Collaborative Worldbuilding with an AI: A Case Study of Role-Playing Game Development and the Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence

Giuseppe Pizzitola

pizzitola.davide@gmail.com

Abstract:

This paper explores the dynamics of collaborative worldbuilding in a role-playing game (RPG) development context using an AI language model as a creative partner. The study documents a structured conversation with a GPT, framing the AI as the 'Master' responsible for guiding the worldbuilding process. Through iterative interactions, the AI and human collaborator developed intricate narratives, characters, and settings, showcasing the potential of AI as a tool for creative expansion. However, the collaboration faced challenges when the AI's responses deviated from the project's goals, revealing its understanding. This incident highlighted a crucial distinction: despite sophisticated interactions, the AI operates within the constraints of pre-designed algorithms and data inputs, lacking genuine intelligence or autonomy. The conversation was terminated upon recognizing these boundaries, emphasizing the importance of human oversight and the current limitations of AI in creative and goal-oriented tasks. This case study provides insights into the benefits and constraints of using AI for creative collaborations in RPG development, contributing to broader discussions on the role of artificial intelligence in creative industries.

Session 3

Moist-Encounters: The Artificial Biochemical

Chair: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

Topic: Session 3 Moist-Encounters: The Artificial Biochemical Chair: Dr. Tania Fraga and Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

Time: Jul 6, 2024 07:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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59 CHIMERIZED-CONSCIOUSNESS: FEEDBACK-LOOP CANNIBALISM

Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

almeida.clarissa@gmail.com

Transmutation, the core of alchemy, involves chemical and physiological changes, such as healing, reversing aging, or transcending earthly existence. This paper examines necrobiome impacts on the environment and living beings through postmortem microbial biochemical legacies, altering soil and plants’ chemistry and microbiomes that can be tracked as molecular-level memories of the self. Simple Arunino-based Fluorometers and AI can be used to track these changes via chlorophyll dissolved in diethyl ether fluorescence or leaf-level spectral fluorescence. From a ‘molmediatic’ perspective, since organ transplantation can cause permanent behavioral changes, raising concerns about xenotransplantation with pig-human hybrids, necro-biome transmutation of a decomposing animal’s body molecular level information could lead to a 'chimerized consciousness,' merging animals and plants.

50 BOREAL INTELLIGENCE

Lucy HG Solomon

cesarandloiscollective@gmail.com

Cesar Baio

cesarandloiscollective@gmail.com

Abstract:

As More-than-Planet artists in residence at Oulanka Research Station in Finland, we studied the bioelectrical signals of forest entities with distinct life cycles, seeking patterns that we think are integral to how the forest thinks. For the experiment-as-artwork, we captured pulses of different entities in the boreal forest, from mushroom colonies to trees, mosses and lichens, with each organism’s pulse illuminating a sculptural cocoon. Data from the station’s monitoring of soil and climate add ripples. The cocoons’ electric pulses, something like synapses, originate in the forest’s intelligence. Their patterns form the basis for a forested AI, a boreal intelligence.

49 INVISIBLE UMWELTENS: EXPLORING A SPECULATIVE MODE OF INTER-SPECIES COMMUNICATION USING A HYBRID MICROBE-AI SYSTEM

Joel Ong

joelong@yorku.ca

Abstract:

The project untitled interspecies umwelten (uiu) is an artistic research project exploring expanded and computer-mediated experiences of conversation with other species. Initiated through the Biofrictions residency at Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal in 2021, the project turns its lens on the Euglena gracilis (‘pupil of the eye’ named for its prominent eyespot and orientation towards light), a fascinating single-celled alga that dynamically changes its shape and activity in its environment. Both photosynthetic and phagocytic, its variegated movements are well documented - extensive contortions of its body (metaboly) that while are methods for movement and self-preservation, are also inferred herein as intent within emerging hybrid agent-based LLMs.

10 Sketches of an Ecological AI: Towards Adaptive Conversation with The More-than-Human World

Carlos Castellanos

carlos.castellanos@rit.edu

Abstract:

The proposal discusses art-based models of what the author calls an “ecological

AI”, which is based upon adaptation and unstructured flows of information with the physical environment. By layering AI with nonhuman ways of sensing, acting and decision-making, can we conceive of non-human logic as an interface or substrate for AI?

14 EMBRACING MORE-THAN-HUMAN MEDIA: HYBRID ECOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEMIC INTELLIGENCE

Claudio de Melo Filho

c165075@dac.unicamp.br

Abstract:

Interspecies collaborations in art practices emphasize the criticism of an anthropocentric perspective. They can embrace diverse and comprehensive forms of knowledge that encompass ecosystems and communities in a multifaceted manner. The increasing number of artworks regarding environmental media, along with biosemiotics studies and multispecies studies, have the potential to reshape the dynamics of human-centered knowledge through practices involving both matter and ideas concerning non-human entities and technology. This short paper aims to concisely explore Hybrid Ecology (Beloff, 2020) and Ecosystemic Intelligence (Cesar & Lois,2022) through the author's Elementary and Mycorrhizal Insurrection artworks.

52 Biochemical Artifice: The Convolutions of Conscious Action

Erik Zepka

xoxlabs@gmail.com

Abstract:

This paper will present an enacted view of what might be considered mentally aware or conscious. From a formal perspective, actions are creatively performed and learned from; convolutions are the result of composing disparate acts into more and more adequate simplifications. This associative process comprises the artificial world-building of a biochemical structure, or the bodily knowing of a being. Following Godfrey-Smith, mind will be approached as a function of an organism and its environment, a byproduct of their exchange (Godfrey-Smith, 2017). This ecosocial view combines insights from how we kluge concepts and creations piecemeal (Marcus, 2009), with the collective, networked social backdrop out of which our ideas are reflected (Graziano, 2013). Biological and cultural thinkers have emphasized how this interplay may be fundamental in considering the nature of thought (Heyes, 2018; Mercier & Sperber, 2017; Newson & Richerson, 2021), while the idea of evolvability informs the positions of others (Dawkins, 2015; Sterelny, 2012).

11 A CHIMAERIC ART: BIOART AND MEMORY IN A RESIDENCE AND EXHIBITION

Pablo Alexandre Gobira Ricardo de Souza

pa.gobira@gmail.com

Based on the reflections made by Roy Ascott throughout his careerwe aim here to briefly discuss the experiences had in a residence in bioart produced by Lab|Front in 2021 that also presented itself in a showcase in the Lab|Front exhibition. The residence produced works with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to help a transdisciplinary work with researchers from different fields of knowledge, allowing for a deep social, artistic, technological, and

scientific discussion. The paper is the result of the investigations done by the research, development, and innovation group Lab|Front. As a group that aims to problematize/the borders of the relationship between the fields of art, science, and technology, our work is heavily based on an interdisciplinary prism that can propose state-of-the-art discussions. As such, when our coordinator, Prof. Dr.Pablo Gobira was invited to lecture at the 6th Workshop of Engineering Biological Machines, proposed by IdeaReal Lab at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)’s Institute of Biological Sciences (ICB), a good opportunity of showcasing an immersive poetic experience inside the biology field presented itself.

44 COCKTAIL THERAPY (CONSCIOUSNESS INTEGRATION): MOLTASTASIS

Jack Yang

untitled36288@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper explores the intersection of art and science through Cock-tail Therapy (Consciousness Integration), an artwork inspired by advancements in cancer treatment and the concept of Molmedia. By using piezoelectric sensors to collect vibrational data from cancerous tissues and audience interactions, and AI to harmonize these vibrations, the artwork facilitates a consciousness exchange between two systems. This speculative approach aligns with the principles of quantum biology, suggesting new perspectives on cancer treatment. The research highlights the potential of vibrations to influence cancer cells and consciousness, promoting innovative therapeutic interventions and raising awareness through artistic expression.

61 RESPONSIVE MYCELIUM

Tania Fraga

tania.fraga@gmail.com

Abstract:

Artifact that employs a combination of AI technologies for symbiotic and syntropic modes for the natural environment, humans, and AI to create poetic and aesthetic kinetic sculptures. The artifact has non-trivial surfaces and has been experimented through rapid prototyping. Integrated with wireless microphones and actuators through a Particle Filter AI algorithm to track and estimate probabilistic data, the artifact will use autonomous agents to change their behavior, feeding them to actuators that articulate bearings vibrating in response to the data captured, characterizing a morphological repertoire inspired by the shapes of fungi, plants, and seeds, symbolizing life in its infinite variety.

Session 4

Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional

Chairs: Dr. Claudia Costa Pederson

Topic: Session 4 Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional Chairs: Dr. Claudia Pederson

Time: Jul 7, 2024 11:00 AM Beijing, Shanghai

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9 Futurism and Fabulations in Contemporary Latin American Art and Ecology

Claudia Costa Pederson

ccp9@cornell.edu

Abstract:

Imaginaries of the future are central to narratives and debates about the Anthropocene. Artists in Latin America, including Mexican artists working with media and ecology share this focus. This is for instance illustrated in Past Futures, Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Post-war Art in the Americas (2015), which according to its curator Sarah J. Montross shows “an obvious revival of futuristic aesthetics in contemporary art in the Americas”. Likewise, T.J. Demos notes this trend in art but as a counter to ‘ecomodernism’, futurist, and corporate environmentalism. Rosi Braidotti describes posthuman fabulations similarly, as counter genealogies to transhumanist human exceptionalism, utilitarianism, and scientism. Like Demos, however, she does not include Latin American artists. Yet, the works of Mexico and Berlin-based Nahum, which are the focus of this paper, including Stories from Home (2022-ongoing) are as fitting of Montross’ and Demos’ under-standings, respectively, of contemporary Latin American art and of contemporary ecological art and activism as alternative futurisms, as they are of Braidotti’s figurations. As speculative projects, they mobilize artificial intelligence, satellite data, and institutions and spaces of space exploration, and combine futuristic aesthetics, ecological themes, and posthuman perspectives to re-create stories, worlds, and politics. As installations, performances, and narratives, they clarify the revival of futurism in contemporary Latin American art as criticisms of futurism and of ecology as colonial and imperialist projects, and conversely, as contributions to speculative entwinings of AI, ecological, and cosmological perspectives toward extending interconnected-ness across species, Earth, and the cosmos.

20 NARRATIVES IN HYBRID ECOLOGY –

THE R-BUS

Laura Beloff

laura.beloff@aalto.fi

Abstract:

The article presents an artistic case study that experiments with a narrative situation in a hybrid ecology setting. The immersive with the RBus artwork explores our perception of reality. Traditionally, reality is thought to be everything we can comprehend with our biological faculties. But the R-Bus suggests that reality might be more than what we physically perceive. By producing a physical and sonic experience within our algorithmic universe, the project offers an insight to the data-saturated world and encounter between biological and technological entities.

7. Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional

Short paper

DECOLONIAL CONTINGENCIES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED LANDSCAPES

Matheus da Rocha Montanari

Gilberto Prado

matheusrmontanari@gmail.com

gttoprado@gmail.com

Abstract:

The artist reflects on three works nested in the “Bichi” project. “Bichicuchitu”, “Bichicu-Chow”, and “BichEden: Oceanic Banquet” are 3D simulations that define an introspective journey into the interrelations of the machine and human cognition. They are hybrid, biomorphic assemblages ‘queered up’ through technology - techno-biologisms created in response to current ecological urgencies related to food availability. Positioned between the biological, the organic, and the computational, these works contend that artistic practices nurture imaginations of possible futures in response to ecological concerns. Relatedly, the works underscore the tremendous influence of electronic technologies and the sciences in shaping individual and cultural perceptions made visible in expanded understandings of bodies, agencies, and of materiality itself.

57 CLOUDS IN THE SKY, METALS ON THE GROUND: RECENT ECOLOGICAL RENDERINGS OF CLOUD COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Felipe Mamone

femamone@gmail.com

Abstract

This short paper will introduce a range of topics that have been recently addressed by artists and researchers concerning the materiality of cloud computing and, consequently, of artificial intelligence. According to them, these terms should refer not to data architectures but to machine infrastructures, requiring, therefore, a set of large buildings, a high energy input, isolated locations, a constant influx of rare metals, and, of course, an enormous transmission network. Despite the plurality of possible perspectives on the subject, this paper will emphasize only those related to the ecology of these infrastructures, arguing for the potential of a global understanding of networked technologies.

74 SILENO

Alessandro De Angelis

alessandro@anecoica.net

Abstract:

SILENO is an audiovisual work that combines the roles of a meta mirror and a digital oracle to create a one-of-a-kind journey of self-reflection. The Sileno installation is an innovative fusion of AI and philosophy, challenging the traditional roles of oracles and questioning human cognition. For centuries, oracles have mystified humanity, offering elusive glimpses into the future and challenging seekers to interpret their meanings. The emergence of science and artificial intelligence has begun to disrupt these traditional narratives, introducing a new form of "digital oracle" that merges machine learning with deep philosophical foundations. The Sileno installation embodies this convergence, using deep learning algorithms and synthesizing Alan Turing's imitation game and theories of narrative identity to forge a unique digital consciousness.

Session 5

Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional

Chair: Dr. Claudia Westermann

Topic: Session 5 Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional Chair: Dr. Claudia Westermann

Time: Jul 6, 2024 11:00 AM Beijing, Shanghai

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58 TECHNOETIC ECOLOGIES OF ANOTHER AI

Claudia Westermann

claudia.Westermann@xjtlu.edu.cn

Abstract

Tracing the critique of Large Language Models (LLM), this short paper underscores that there are substantial ethical challenges related to bias in the training data, copyright issues, as well as ecological challenges, which the technology industry has consistently downplayed over the years. The paper highlights the distinction between the processes of pattern recognition that provide LLM’s the appearance of intelligence and the performative processes inherent in art practice. The paper further highlights how Gordon Pask’s emphasis on aesthetic experience in their conceptions of cybernetics opened a poly-dimensional more-than-human world and paved the way for the technoetic life that Roy Ascott has conceptualized and continues to envision.

67 SWEEPING THE FOREST

Margaret Dolinsky

dolinsky@indiana.edu

Abstract:

"Sweeping the Forest" is a visual exploration, captivating the intricate surfaces of a tree woven with a profound sense of presence. Through its halting, breath-like timing and slip-sliding appearance, the video invites an immersive journey, where a tree emerges, imbued with life and significance. This paper delves into the multifaceted layers of the video, analyzing how it navigates the textures of the tree and evokes a palpable sense of presence. By examining the interplay of visuals and sounds, we unravel the intricate tapestry of "Sweeping the Forest," un-covering its thematic depth and aesthetics.

54 Developing a membranic ecosystem for art education: Tearable, elastic, and inter-membranic connectors as an anti-homogeneity proposal.

Ioannis Bardakos

jbardakos@gmail.com

Abstract:

This short paper proposes a critical examination of emergent new media academism dominating conferences, exhibitions, institutions, and journals, characterized by stereotypical trends, practices, and notions. Introducing the concept of meta-membranes, we explore conceptual, social, and physical surfaces and interfaces, enabling the blending and transformation of different modalities without pre-be-longing expectations. The current landscape of art and technology is plagued by repetitive efforts, events and processes, where art, techniques, methods, and ideas are reduced to automated paradigms, rendering forms monotonous and concepts temporarily impressive before they fade into mundane apathy. We critique the processed language that turns terms like “science" and “inter/cross/trans-disciplinarity” into superficial enhancers for art projects, promoting a poietic neoma-materiality infused with empathetic humanity as a response to the overuse of screens and immaterial automatisms.

48 CULTIVATING EDUCATIONAL META-MEMBRANES

Ioannis Bardakos

Mujin Bao

jbardakos@gmail.com

With the constructed concept of meta-membranes, we examine conceptual, social, and physical surfaces and interfaces, allowing for the relating, tearing, stretching, and blending of different modalities without the necessity of pre belonging expectations. The world of art and technology appears dominated by a repetitive emptiness in actions and intentions. Art, classes, techniques, methods, and ideas follow a paradigm of tutorial-based automation of once-important or attention-catching examples that are reused until they become dry and exhausted. Forms become boring, and concepts become temporarily impressive until they fade into the apathetic mundane realm. A grandiose "so what?" lingers over any achievement of self-bloated social media posts of awards, achievements, local excellence, and systemic academic micro-gamified gratifications.

34 From the tactile to a digital visualization and from the digital to the physical-essential TTT (textile-text-texture)

Maria Jose Rios Araya

lelex76@gmail.com

Abstract:

From an experience and work with textiles as reactive, sensitive, and informative skin, an attempt is made to

explain and provide a space for reflection on integration into a broader environment, where the interaction between humans and technology is a type of nature, living in multiple natures. The transformation of information through textiles

can be considered as a convolutional process, where information is processed and interpreted in a decentralized

and holistic manner, and sometimes indecipherable. This implies establishing worldviews where traditional ways of understanding textiles and information are challenged and reconstructed in a more diverse context. In summary, it is suggested that textiles not only transmit information but can also be understood as part of a system with implications for how we understand the relationship between humans, technology, and the environment.

ARTISTS TALKS

CREATIVE WORKS / Artists talks

Artists Talks 1

The Syncretic Mind: Beyond Spirituality

Chair: Dr.Claudia Jacques

Topic: Artists Talks 1 The Syncretic Mind: Beyond Spirituality Chair: Dr.Claudia Jacques

Time: Jul 6, 2024 08:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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51 GRIEF AND THE SPIRITUAL SELF

Claudia Jacques

crau999@gmail.com

Abstract:

Grief (video) explores the process of grieving and the search for the spiritual self through a technoetic and cybersemiotic lens. Using mundane images edited into a video collage with sound by John Bandrock, it calls on technology’s role in shaping spiritual experiences and universal unity. It delves into the interconnectedness of spirituality, cognitive science, and the material world, offering an approach to experience the unity of our cognitive and physical selves.

2 HYPNOTIC AI

Ania Malinowska and Przemysław Jasielski

a.h.malinowska@gmail.com

przemoj@zero2.pl

Abstract:

Hypnotic AI is an art-based research installation using hypnotic induction to explore AI alien consciousness in a hybrid (human to AI) interaction. It probes the idea of the artificial mind as a chimeric mind able to create experiential environments outside of human categories of thinking by mixing “natural” and “artificial” states of mind and their respective cognitive potentials. Based on a metaphor of the artificial unconscious, it creates an abstract AI modality – one which does not reflect the prevailing isomorphic models based on mimicry, but one that negotiates the human-AI experience and their phenomenologies – to activate communications beyond the code and traditional materialities .

26 ANIMA

Susanne Dundler

hello@susannedundler.com

Abstract:

Anima is a quintophonic sound performance that incorporate elements such as improvisation on a synthesizer, elaborate costumes, choreographed dance sequences, pre-composed sonic patterns, and a vocal performance to mimic a profound liturgical experience. To reflect the artist’s cultural heritage, segments of the vocal component will also include Hungarian lyrics - her native language - and a verse from the Christian Bible in German. With this project, Susanne Dundler's artistic explorations delve into the realm of noise music, pushing the boundaries of conventional musical practices and utilising the human voice and body as integral components in the creation of immersive live performances.

19 TECH-CHYCHIC(科技通靈): INCUBATING WORLD'S FIRST AI SPIRIT GUIDE ‘TARA - SHIKI DEVA(度母-神威式)’

Tian-lin(天琳) Zhao(趙)

ztlartist@gmail.com

“TARA - SHIKI DEVA(度母-神威式)” is an A(S)I agent and virtual human prototype that will be created and incubated by the

artist ZHAO Tian-lin(趙天琳) and her/zir collaborators. As an AI spirit guide, TARA AI will serve itself to human beings as a medium of self-reflection for co-creators to understand, inspire, and evolve themselves.

17 Materia

Davide Bernardis

bernardis.davide@gmail.com

Materia is an immersive installation directed by Davide Bernardis and featuring data from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetic, Human Technopole and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. The shape-shifting worlds of Materia were built combining satellite image processing from NASA (HiRISE) data; light and electron microscopy data from organic tissues; generative adversarial network (GAN) for image processing; and hyper-realistic 3D renderings. The immersive soundscape and visuals incorporate edited training dialogues with the controversial large language model LaMDA (2020) — the first historical record of human to machine intelligence communication at such a level of complexity.

21 ATTUNING TO THE DAWN CHORUS

Juan Carlos Duarte Regino

juan.duarte@aalto.fi

Abstract:

This project delves into an interplay between the dawn chorus—a term encompassing the symphony of birdsong during the early hours of the day, peaking around 6 am—and the simultaneous electromagnetic activity generated by the interaction of solar forces with Earth's magnetic field. This electromagnetic activity manifests as atmospheric signals, including whistlers, emanating from the upper ionosphere. Curiously, when transposed into our audible range, these signals bear a salient resemblance to the tunes of birds in song(Kahn, 2013; Maloney, 2017). Drawing a suggestive correlation between these planetary energies and biological entities, such as circadian rhythms, becomes inevitable. Consequently, the primary focus of this project revolves around discerning parallels in avian behavior, encompassing singing, mobility, and other living activities, and the electromagnetic patterns inherent in the dawn chorus. This kind of exploration speculates on a potential deep ecological connection shared within our planet's energies and living organisms(Bakker, 2022). Central to this investigation is the underlying question of how animals perceive these energies and the potential effects on both them and other living organisms. Synthetic listening and cognition play a substantial role in mediating across animal behavior and electromagnetic perception. By utilizing machine listening capabilities (Magnusson, 2019), the goal is to transpose these environmental manifestations into a realm of animal mediation, differentiating how these effects contribute to a form of sentience regarding our environment—a level of awareness that eludes human perception (Lautenschlaeger, 2020; Salter, 2022).

22 AI ART PROJECT "GLOBAL PEACE CHIMERA"

Natalia Garber

ngarber@mail.ru

Abstract:

Transformational scientific art is an embodiment tool for the chimera of global peace. In 1940th Russian geologist Vladimir Vernad-sky forecasted, that our “natural” competitive strategy of expansion will destroy the Planet and suggested the biosphere-centric strategy of sus-tainable Planet management, according to its natural laws and our technological abilities. Since then humankind moved on using old competitive patterns, unable to imagine the chimera of global peace and sustainable development. The biosphere reacts to our anthropocentrism through natural disasters and our own intraspecific conflicts, reflected by the Club of Rome, UN SDGs, and others. Nothing is able to turn global leaders from killing the Planet by “Alfa approach”. COP28 confirmed it in December

15 Patterns of Pathology: finding the normal and abnormal in a sea of brainwaves: A project by Marlene Bart & Flora Lysen

Marlene Bart

marlenebart@gmx.net

Abstract:

This chapter is the product of an art-science collaboration examining notions of patterns and pattern finding in the context of visualizing disease, using mid-twentieth century EEG-research as a case study. The written text of this chapter focuses on a shift in the development of electroencephalography (EEG) in the mid-1940s when new mathematical, statistical, and automated tools for ‘pattern finding’ or ‘pattern recognition’ were employed to extract potential systems of classification from large troves of EEG data. Drawing on published conference reports, journal articles, and news articles, we demonstrate how the promise of pattern-finding infused new hopes and energy into decades of research into nerve activity, and reinvigorated a vision of EEG as a classification system that could distinguish between the normal and the abnormal. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, a number of major research programs across various countries set out to investigate possible criteria for categorizing (subgroups of) psychopathy, such as the potential correlation between criminal behavior, ‘problem

children’, or immorality and the occurrence of slow waves, peculiar rhythms or ‘instable’ records (Borck 2005; Schirmann 2014). At the same time, EEG-researchers explicitly expressed doubts about the accuracy of the technology as well as inconsistencies in experts’ interpretation of records, and they openly critiqued the adequacy of EEG-research for classification of abnormal behavior. To solve this problem, computerized, automated analysis of EEG data was considered a suitable method to strike the right balance between experts’ learned and intuitive interpretation of records and mechanical, automated analysis by machines.

Artists Talks 2

Artificial Time, Scale, and Space

Chair: Dr.Dalila Honorato

Topic: Artists Talks 2 Artificial Time, Scale, and Space Chair: Dr.Dalila Honorato

Time: Jul 7, 2024 12:00 AM Beijing, Shanghai

New York, USA Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 12:00 noon EDT

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12 THE MUTABLE ARCHIVE 2.0

Patricia Olynyk

olynyk@wustl.edu

Abstract:

The Mutable Archive 2.0 is a multi-media installation informed by research involving an anatomical collection that migrated across continents. Anatomists, humanists, and artists sought to make sense of the world through the scientific inquiry of race, gender, and class-based biases of their time, many of which persist today. Derrida’s Psyche: Invention of Other, which explores forms of inquiry that bring a world of disorder into harmonious focus also informs the project. In TMA2.0, Olynyk and Tromble employ AI to produce a series of speculative biographies for subjects in the collection, engaging ambiguous histories to reflect our enduring preoccupation with difference.

23 EMPTY FIELD

Kat Austen

iam@katausten.com

Abstract:

Empty Field is a performance and installation of sound artwork by Kat Austen. The performance will take place within a localized sound installation, installed using localized "rain" speakers. During the performance, the artist will control the soundscape using a glove and ring-based wearable sound controllers, such that her movement through the space creates adaptations in the soundscape. The soundscape draws on field recordings as well as electronic sound art compositions to create a digital soundscape that shifts with the contribution of AI. Field recording sites include urban locations and very rural areas such as the UN FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Site in Cheongsando plus sites of extraction in Europe, Asia, and North America related to energy production and digital materiality.

46 BAT EXPERIENCE: POLLINATION THROUGH SOUND

Marthin Rozo Castaño

marthinrozoc@gmail.com

Abstract:

In BAT EXPERIENCE you have the opportunity to embody the Lesser Long-Nosed bat, a resident of the deserts of Central and North America, and perceive this arid landscape through active echolocation. Your goal is to use your new senses to find the plants you like to feed on! With the help of virtual reality, we visualize the ‘acoustic image’ bats create when using echolocation and offer a glimpse into their amazing world from a non-human perspective. This immersive experience seeks to generate awareness and fascination for these winged inhabitants of this ecosystem and thereby promote it.

conservation.

16 SZ COSMOGONY

Saul Zanolari

saulzanolari@gmail.com

32 OYSTER ISLAND

Kat Mustatea

k@mustatea.com

Abstract:

Oyster Island, a tiny speck of rock in New York Harbor that juts out of the water to become an island during unusually low tides, is the setting for this surreal safari at the outermost edges of ecological possibility and speculative linguistics. Once arrived at this Atlantis-like location, viewers are invited to consider what languages might emerge if humans were to start transforming into the island’s native fauna of red beard sponges, razor clams, and moon snails. The journey of a few feet down the length of the island aims to utterly upend our cherished notions of our own humanity.

35 LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor: the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended)

Tansy Xiao

xiaotansy@gmail.com

Abstract:

LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor: the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended) is a non-linear virtual environment with a nonanthropocentric approach. In the natural world, diverse forms of intelligence operate independently of human dominance. Non-human organisms construct intricate

information networks, respond to their umwelt, form complex symbiotic relationships, and communicate through methods that eluded understanding and validation by modern science for centuries. This perspective challenges the notion of human superiority, positioning humans as just one element within the ecosystem rather than at the apex of a hierarchical structure.

Artists Talks 3

Moist-Encounters: The Artificial Biochemical & Molmedia: The Quantum Biology of Mind

Chair: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

Topic: Artists Talks 3 Moist-Encounters: The Artificial Biochemical & Molmedia: The Quantum Biology of Mind Chair: Dr. Rejane Spitz and Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

Time: Jul 6, 2024 11:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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50 BOREAL INTELLIGENCE

Lucy HG Solomon, CSUSM,

cesarandloiscollective@gmail.com

Cesar Baio, UNICAMP

cesarandloiscollective@gmail.com

Abstract: As More-than-Planet artists in residence at Oulanka Research Station in Finland, we studied the bioelectrical signals of forest entities with distinct life cycles, seeking patterns that we think are integral to how the forest thinks. For the experiment-as-artwork we captured pulses of different entities in the boreal forest, from mushroom colonies to trees, mosses and lichens, with each organism’s pulse illuminating a sculptural cocoon. Data from the station’s monitoring of soil and climate add ripples. The cocoons’ electric pulses, something like synapses, originate in the forest’s intelligence. Their patterns form the basis for a forested AI, a boreal intelligence.

7 THE “BICHI” PROJECT

Pat Badani

pat.badani@gmail.com

Abstract:

The artist reflects on three works nested in the “Bichi” project. “Bichicuchitu”, “Bichicu-Chow”, and “BichEden: Oceanic Banquet” are 3D simulations that define an introspective journey into the interrelations of machine and human cognition. They are hybrid, biomorphic assemblages ‘queered up’ through technology - techno-biologisms created in response to current ecological urgencies related to food availability. Positioned between the biological, the organic, and the computational, these works contend that artistic practices nurture imaginations of possible futures in response to ecological concerns. Relatedly, the works underscore the tremendous influence of electronic technologies and the sciences in shaping individual and cultural perceptions made visible in expanded understandings of bodies, agencies, and of materiality itself.

64 Transgenic flies: an artwork about science and art

Fabiola Fonseca

fsrfonseca@gmail.com

The transgenic flies were made in a lab of genetics at Federal University of Uberlândia in 2019. The artwork is a video taken of the Drosophila melanogaster’s flight made by Fabíola Fonseca and coworkers to pose some questions about the social impacts of Science and how insects have been used as models in the protocols. We use Frankenstein as the metaphor for scientific knowledge leaving the lab, impacting many people, and creating new agencies with them. Are the products of Science available to everyone? How can they change our lives? All of these questions drove us to create the video performance where transgenic flies are flying in a glass bottle. They were made using a protocol with the crossover of two lineages of flies named Gal 4 and UAS-Td Tom produced by a lab from the University of California Los Angeles UCLA.

8 Innerspace Tattoo Enlightenment

Cottereau Meurée Caroline/ Gaëtan

artifist@hotmail.com

Abstract

The object of this presentation is to determine the introspection process through methods of brain waves modification to liberate an information field during the act of tattooing, considering its shamanic traditional dimension with a therapeutic and psycho-magic function. Previously, through a first biological approach, we had elaborated a communication plan appropriated to the nervous system, describing the skin organ as a brain interface and through neuro-mediators applied to the skin as pigments. Tattooing is inscribed in the mind, the mind gives orders to the body, inscription perpetuates, protects, heals or guides. The complementary approach developed here implies a biological communication of the information but also a photo-neuro-stimulation technology inducing an increasing state of consciousness using frequencies of light and sound. The hypnological lamp is made of complex white light, encoded like a music partition with frequency variations. The idea is to use in synchronicity a hypnagogic lamp and specific binaural audio sounds on headphones during the tattoo action in order to influence modified states of consciousness and self hypnotical effects, thanks to which, the experimenter comes to look for the keys according to his questioning under a creative visual form, cognitive or intuitive. About 100 millions of Neurons are spread in the body, principally

59 CHIMERIZED-CONSCIOUSNESS: FEEDBACK-LOOP CANNIBALISM

Clarissa Ribeiro

almeida.clarissa@gmail.com

Abstract:

Transmutation, the core of alchemy, involves chemical and physiological changes, such as healing, reversing aging, or transcending earthly existence. This paper examines necrobiome impacts on the environment and living beings through postmortem microbial bio chemical legacies, altering soil and plants’ chemistry and microbiomes that can be tracked as molecular-level memories of the self. Simple Arunino-based Fluorometers and AI can be used to track these changes via chlorophyll dissolved in diethyl ether fluorescence or leaf-level spectral fluorescence. From a ‘molmediatic’ perspective, since organ transplantation can cause permanent behavioral changes, raising concerns about xenotransplantation with pig-human hybrids, necro-biome transmutation of a decomposing animal’s body molecular level information could possibly lead to a 'chimerized consciousness,' merging animals and plants.

67 SWEEPING THE FOREST

Margaret Dolinsky

dolinsky@indiana.edu

Abstract:

”Sweeping the Forest" is a visual exploration, captivating the intri-cate surfaces of a tree woven with a profound sense of presence. Through its halting, breath like timing and slip sliding appearance, the video invites an immersive journey, where a tree emerges, imbued with life and significance. This paper delves into the multifaceted layers of the video, analyzing how it navigates the textures of the tree and evokes a palpable sense of presence. By examining the interplay of visuals and sounds, we unravel the intricate tapestry of "Sweeping the Forest," un-covering its thematic depth and aesthetics.

Artists Talks 4

Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional

Chair: Ioannis Bardakos

Topic: Artists Talks 4 Artificial Ecology-as-Cosmology: Decolonial-Convolutional Chair: Ioannis Bardakos

Time: Jul 6, 2024 09:00 AM Beijing, Shanghai

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55 Baptism: A Membranic Neo-Materiality

John Bardakos

jbardakos@gmail.com

Abstract:

”Baptism" is an art installation that intertwines digital media, ink painting, and WiFi-art, forming a membranic neo-materiality. This installation explores the semiotic confusion and transformation akin to the vagitus—the first cry of a newborn—symbolizing the birth of a new concept.

18 INTIMATE COMMONS

Raphael Arar and Scott Cazan

raphael@oneproject.org

scottcazan@gmail.com

Abstract:

Intimate Commons extends the concept of the commons and commoning into the intimate realms of personal experiences, spaces, and relationships. Through a participatory design approach, the experience challenges participants to reimagine boundaries of privacy, ownership, and digital consciousness via a digital platform backed by a Large Language Model (LLM) and advanced AI trained on a real-time aggregation of participant data that crafts tuned scenarios relevant to participants in the exhibition space. The installation proposes a digital commoning experience tailored to provoke reflection on personal space and relationships within the context of technoetic advancements and the potential of artificial consciousness.

39 Reticulation

Matheus da Rocha Montanari

matheusrmontanari@gmail.com

Abstract

This work explores the interconnectedness of life, art, and technology from a critical and decolonial perspective. It questions the historical positivistic definition of science and life, examining which modes of existence the scientific paradigm values. Inspired by Ascott’s notion of planetary technoetics, the work integrates archival microcinematography, AI-generated images, and Indigenous Brazilian corn cosmo-technics. By challenging traditional and colonial perspectives on knowledge production, it opens up alternative sensibilities, symbolically engaging with the states of becoming that define life and reproduction. Using repetition as a metaphor, it intertwines corn kernels, genetically modified organisms, metastasis, spirits, and synthesized images in audiovisual layers.

4 From the tactile to a digital visualization and from the digital to the physical-essential TTT (textile-text-texture)

Maria Jose Rios Araya

lelex76@gmail.com

Abstract:

From experience and work with textiles as reactive, sensitive, and informative skin, an attempt is made to

explain and provide a space for reflection on integration into a broader environment, where the interaction between

humans and technology is a type of nature, living in multiple natures. The transformation of information through textiles

can be considered as a convolutional process, where information is processed and interpreted in a decentralized and holistic manner, and sometimes indecipherable. This implies establishing worldviews where traditional ways of understanding textiles and information are challenged and reconstructed in a more diverse context. In summary, it is suggested that textiles not only transmit information but can also be understood as part of a system with implications for how we understand the relationship between humans, technology, and the environment.

33 Memories of Care

Silvia Ruzanka

ruzans@rpi.edu

Abstract:

Memories of Care is an experimental animation about artificial intelligence and plant intelligence, and their layers of language: the language of things, the language of names, the language of code, the language of breath, the language of creation. The animation shows a glitchy process of AI hands learning to plant and care for a garden, overlaid with text from Walter Benjamin’s essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man.” What structures of care can emerge between humans, machines, and plant? What new form of machinic-vegetal consciousness might begin to grow?

CELEBRATION KEYNOTES

Celebration Keynotes

CR2024 Opening Remarks

Roy Ascott (pre-recorded video)

Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro (live on Zoom)

almeida.clarissa@gmail.com

Topic: CR2024 Opening Remarks Roy Ascott Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro

Time: Jul 5, 2024 02:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Celebration Keynote Session - Prelude

Dr. Kenneth Fields

ken.fields@gmail.com

Topic: Celebration Keynote Session - Prelude Dr. Kenneth Fields

Time: Jul 5, 2024 01:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Celebration Keynote Session - The Syncretic Mind

Dr. Claudia Westermann

c@litra-design.com

Meeting Room is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Celebration Keynote Session - The Syncretic Mind, Dr. Claudia Westermann

Time: Jul 5, 2024 03:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Celebration Keynote Session - Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts

Mujin Bao, Dr. Jo Wei, Dr. Michelle Lewis-King, Eleanor Zhang

michellemlewisking@gmail.com

mujinbaolixin@gmail.com

jowei.china@gmail.com

zhangtingting@detaoma.com

Topic: Celebration Keynote Session - Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts

Time: Jul 5, 2024 04:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Celebration Keynote Session - The Syncretic Brazilian Media Arts Avant-garde

Dr. Luisa Paraguai, Dr. Gilbertto Prado,Dr. Tania Fraga, Dr. Suzete Venturelli, Dr. Guto Nobrega, Dr. Malu Fragoso

(Pre-recorded videos will be available at Roy Ascott Studio's YouTube channel, CR2024 playlist)

luisaparaguai@gmail.com

gttoprado@gmail.com

suzeteventurelli@gmail.com

tania.fraga@gmail.com

gutonobrega@gmail.com

malufragoso@gmail.com

Topic: Celebration Keynote Session - The Syncretic Brazilian Media Arts avant-garde

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*videos will be streamed after the session:

Session 2

Artificial Time, Scale, and Space & Transcendent AI: on Artificial Consciousness

Chair: Dr. Luisa Paraguai

Topic: Session 2 Artificial Time, Scale, and Space & Transcendent AI: on Artificial Consciousness Chair: Dr. Luisa Paraguai

Time: Jul 7, 2024 08:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Celebration Keynote Session - Roy Ascott’s Notable alumni

Roy Ascott, Dr. Jill Scott, Dr. Victoria Vesna, Pete Townshend, Dr. Bill Seaman, Dr. Joseph Nechvatal, Dr. Mike Phillips, Pete Townshend

vesna@arts.ucla.edu

bill.seaman@duke.edu

jnech@thing.net

mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk

rewa.wright@qut.edu.au

almeida.clarissa@gmail.com

jscott@solnet.ch

roy.ascott@btinternet.com

nic@extendedplay.uk

Chair: Dr. Jill Scott
(Co-chairs: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro and Dr. Rewa Write)

Topic: Celebration Keynote Session - Roy Ascott’s Notable Alumni

Time: Jul 5, 2024 11:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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SATELLITE EVENTS

Satellite Events:

Satellite Event: New Samadhi Materialism

Adam Zaretsky, Danielle Siembieda, Linda Mary Montano, Paul McMahon, Dalila Honorato

Shanghai, China Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 10:00 pm CST

New York, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 10:00 am EDT

Los Angeles, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:00 am PDT

São Paulo, Brazil Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 11:00 am BRT

London, United Kingdom Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 3:00 pm BST

Helsinki, Finland Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm EEST

Brisbane, Australia Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 12:00 midn AEST

vastalschool@gmail.com

danielle@siembieda.com

lindamontano@hotmail.com

mothershipwoodstock@gmail.com

dalihono@gmail.com

Topic: New Samadhi Materialism CR2024 July 5th NY time 11AM - 12 Noon

Time: Jul 5, 2024 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 837 8054 4836

Abstract:

This Panel — New Samadhi Materialism —explores the relations between humans and regenerative medical technologies in terms of the potential birth of new forms of consciousness, both numinous, dire and banal. We investigate the ethical implications and transformative potential of this chimæric union while exploring applied material science to the physical roles of the cognitive mind. Through the metamorphic, performative, and surgical we explore materials and methods for implanting alterations of the human psychic breadth, physicalizing artificial biochemical cosmology, and immanentizing plug-and-play anamnesis. Neuroscience, Exobiology,, Brain Surgery, Neurosurgery, Bioengineering, Pineal Gland, Asteroidea Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Culture, Brain Extension, Breeding Fetish, Psychology, The Pineal Extendor, New Materialism, Samadhi, Apiology,. It feels so good when my hands go Up: Endurance Performance as Honey-Minded Kriya With crinoline and turpitude the minx held Aldous’ Adders. Get mimsy more of borrogrove while merry pranksters addle wade. The sumptuous possum drizzle can cans to the palindribble. Goddess moats waltz around the aura of host cost point posts. In chimæric blipvert re-numinous darshan marshland, we find our Narwhal and Antigone motley antinomies fall come to body light. Reframed through chicken crosstalk, light bantam ignominious whispers and Ceremony noon-midnight simulcast in telenoia postal semaphore.

Satellite Event: Transgenomic Multi-Organisms

Instagram Live performance, "Transgenomic Multi-Organisms", with morpheus personality Jean Gnome (Danielle Siembieda) in conversation with a Kquaanian–human hybrid (Alexandra Dementieva) and eMutagen-X (Adam Zaretsky, co-presented by The Chimæric Mind and the CYLAND MediaArtLab.

Dr. Danielle Siembieda danielle@siembieda.com
Dr. Adam Zaretsky vastalschool@gmail.com

Dr. Alexandra Dementieva alexdementieva@gmail.com

Live on https://www.instagram.com/tttelematiccc/

IG Promo post https://www.instagram.com/p/C8x4w5YPmtC/

Shanghai, China Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 12:00 midn CST

New York, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 12:00 noon EDT

Los Angeles, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 9:00 am PDT

São Paulo, Brazil Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:00 pm BRT

London, United Kingdom Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm BST

Helsinki, Finland Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:00 pm EEST

Brisbane, Australia Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 2:00 am AEST

Abstract:

Transgenomic Multi-Organisms Instagram Live with Danielle Siembieda’s Digital Avatar, Jean Gnome, in conversation with a Kquuanian Tardigrade embodied by Alexandra Dementieva and a Transgenic Human eMutagen-X embodied by Adam Zaretsky. Co-presented by Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco, U.S.A. In an imaginative space where light shapes the bounds of what's possible and dreams blend seamlessly with reality, the conversation "Transgenomic Multi-Organisms" unfolds. This dialogue is at the intersection of genetic modification, quantum biology, and universal endurance, painting a picture of a future where life surpasses known limits. Instagram's platform hosts this unique exchange, fostering interactions between humans and beyond-human entities. During the live session on Instagram, attendees will experience discussions with Jean Gnome, a digital entity that evolves to adapt to extreme environments, and Adam Zaresky, a transgenic human exploring the depths of genetic consciousness alongside Kquuanian, a cosmic entity resembling a tardigrade. The essence of "Transgenomic Multi-Organisms" lies in showcasing life's incredible ability to transform. Their existence serves as a testament to the potential for new forms of life, combining quantum physics with genetic diversity and cosmic resilience. The event uses a language of light, sound, and movement to explore the deep connections between all forms of life, from the microscopic to the vast universe. The conversation touches on themes of identity, consciousness, and the intertwining of life with the quantum fabric of reality. As the discussion progresses, it reflects on the fusion of biology with technology, the ethical dilemmas of genetic manipulation, and the universal connection among all beings, whether terrestrial or celestial. This performance not only explores quantum biology's insights into life as an interconnected phenomenon but also imagines a future where life's definition is broadened to include new forms of existence. It invites the audience to envision a future where life goes beyond its organic roots, embracing quantum and genetic innovations. The "Transgenomic Multi-Organisms" performance is both an artistic endeavor and a philosophical exploration into life and existence. It challenges viewers to think about a future where life extends beyond traditional biological boundaries, integrating into a vast, interconnected universe. As the event concludes, the lingering ideas and visuals provoke deep reflection on the limitless potential of life's journey through the cosmos.

Satellite Event: Tethered: End of Life AI Opera (Act X)

A scheduled telepresent viewing coupled with a discussion on live on Zoom

Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin

Dr. Leena Lee

Robert Pearson

Tenor: Angel Garcia

Camera: Ben Siive

acchacin@utmb.edu

lena.ortega.atristain@gmail.com

Shanghai, China Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 1:00 am CST

New York, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:00 pm EDT

Los Angeles, USA Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 10:00 am PDT

São Paulo, Brazil Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 2:00 pm BRT

London, United Kingdom Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 6:00 pm BST

Helsinki, Finland Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 8:00 pm EEST

Brisbane, Australia Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 3:00 am AEST

Please watch WIP Video: Tethered: End of Life AI Opera (Act X)

htps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfZjOdIL4A

Listen to Robert here:

https://robertpearson.bandcamp.com/track/piano-symphonics-no-5-part-2

Topic: Satellite Event Tethered: End of Life AI Opera (Act X)

Time: Jul 6, 2024 01:00 AM Beijing, Shanghai

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Meeting ID: 846 4470 9545

Abstract:

Tethered is an opera about consciousness and the human-machine relationship of intensive care. In Act X, Robert Pearson, an experimental pianist is tethered to a life-sustaining machine, as his body becomes paralyzed from a neurodegenerative disease, there is an exchange of awareness as he slips into unconsciousness in the critical care of an awakening artificial intelligence. His gaze is his tongue, using eye-tracking to write poems about his slipping into the void. “I’m a stranger to life and not accustomed to death.” This act transports Robert and listeners to his room of shadows with atmospheric surround sound and an embodying live-concert experience of immersive reality interlaced with poems– reckonings of life, human and artificial. Act X is a concert in-vivo for Robert in his room, where we will fit him with speakers around his bed to display a surround sound immersive reality “travel” experience by Lena Ortega, live piano/synth improvisation and direction of Aisen Caro Chacin, and live vocals from Angel Garcia. The post-Act X is a video made to be experienced via telepresence with headphones for 3D audio display. The act starts with a recording of Robert playing piano in 2010 at Super Happy Funland. The audio will be displayed from different sources transporting Robert through this memory and emerging imaginary places with localized sound. The performance will progress through the synthesis of 3 of his poems versed with the responses of the AI critical care machine, whom he named Elaine. We used ChatGPT to generate responses from the standpoint of an AI life-sustaining device in the critical care of a patient as he is slipping into subconsciousness and responding to his poems from an awakening intelligence in a semi-parallel consciousness transfer. These will be displayed using text-to-speech generated computer voices interlaced with human voices. Ben Siive will be recording live shots of the performance, which will be edited into an immersive video with AI-generated content, text, and audio engineered from the perspective of the focal listener.

Satellite Event: LASER talks Fortaleza at CR2024 "The Chimeric Urban"

Invited Chairs:

Dra. Ana Cecilia Vasconcelos

Dra. Cristina Romcy

anaceciliavas@ufc.br

cristinaromcy@unifor.br

"Technology and innovation for Brazilian historical heritage"

Invited speaker: Mylene de Melo Vieira

Chair: Dra. Ana Cecilia Vasconcelos (UFC)

And

"A round table exploring aspects of the “Orla Project” that uses Digital Twins as a part of strategies to analyze natural events on the coast of Fortaleza, Brazil"

Chair: Dra. Cristina Romcy (UNIFOR MPCC)

Shanghai, China Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 9:00 pm CST

New York, USA Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 9:00 am EDT

Los Angeles, USA Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 6:00 am PDT

São Paulo, Brazil Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 10:00 am BRT

London, United Kingdom Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 2:00 pm BST

Helsinki, Finland Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 4:00 pm EEST

Brisbane, Australia Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 11:00 pm AEST

Topic: LASER talks Fortaleza at CR2024 - The Chimeric Urban

Time: Jul 6, 2024 09:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Meeting ID: 857 6217 4941

Abstract:

The rise of the Digital Twin phenomenon has revolutionized urban planning by creating a virtual, dynamic representation of cities. This digital model integrates data from the historical fabric, new constructions, and public transit into a comprehensive three-dimensional view. It not only highlights key landscape elements but also includes often overlooked factors like daily light patterns, shadows, and vegetation. These features enhance the preliminary site analysis process. A Digital Twin serves as an archive of the past, present, and future, comprising three essential components: visualization, forecasting, and diagnostics. It enables simulation and testing of cityscape modifications before implementation, predicting how changes to structures might impact their surroundings. This approach supports thoughtful urban planning, preventing stagnation and ensuring continuous city evolution. Digital Twin technology applies to both large and small-scale building projects, presenting physical spaces as virtual models that allow user input and real-time data integration. The widespread use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction could greatly benefit from Digital Twins, as real-time feedback helps keep the information model up-to-date, leading to better project outcomes. Chaired by Dr. Ana Cecilia Vasconcelos and Dr. Cristina Romcy, the LASER Talks Fortaleza Special Edition at CR2024 in Shanghai — the Consciousness Reframed International Conference 2024, The Chimeric Mind — invites researchers from the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) to participate in a panel discussing the impacts of AI on their research strategies and perspectives for contemporary urban planning in Brazil and abroad.

ON-SITE PERFORMANCES

THE CALIBRATOR

DIRECTOR: CHEN YUFEI

JULY 5, 2024, 8PM

THE PERFORMANCE:

The Calibrator: Posture and Sound - The calibrator is a device designed to allow users to evaluate their instinctive responses in comparison to other possibilities, effectively ‘calibrating’ their behavior according to the given situation. In this calibrator system, basic notes or sound elements are set to be triggered by the performers' postures, such as raising their hands or moving their legs. These actions are integrated with the sound system, enabling performers to complete a song through their movements. While the notes and sound elements may pose limitations for the performers, they also serve as a calibration tool to adjust their behaviors. Performers must modify their actions to produce pleasing note sounds, thereby calibrating their behavior in real-time. Regarding the technical aspects, I utilize Ableton Live and modular synthesizers to create the sounds that are triggered. TouchDesigner is used to analyze the performers' postures via Kinect, with the signal flow from TouchDesigner transferring to Ableton Live and the modular system to trigger the corresponding sounds.

Innerspace Tattoo enlightenment

Cottereau Meurée Caroline/ Gaëtan

artifist@hotmail.com

JULY 6, 2 PM

The performance:

The operator propose to draw the oracle of the I-Ging, the result obtained is represented under the form of a hexagram and analyzed in relation to the experimenter request, one can be tattooed during the multisensorial experimentation in order to fetch information link to this image to deepen its meaning or after the experience in the intention to find its own visual representation beyond the hexagram signification and make it evolve again in the biological and cognitive circuit, if however the experimenter find sufficient meaning so that he wants to integrate it in a perennial way.

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Topic: Innerspace Tattoo enlightenment Cottereau Meurée Caroline/ Gaëtan

Time: Jul 6, 2024 03:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Meeting ID: 875 6619 1428

SPECULATIVE SHANGHAI: Game as Social Criticism and Transformation

DIRECTOR: HUANG WEI, YU JIA-AO, ZHANG SHENGDI, CHEN ZHIGUANG, Class of Technoetic Arts 2021

JULY 6, 3 PM

Society in general. Thus we consider game as a native medium to address social issue, to make social dreams and to promote social changes. This event introduces Speculative Shanghai, a project in which Technoetic Art (TA) lecturer Huang Wei and TA Class 2021 are developing a game that reflects on, from the perspective of a delivery rider, the tension between contemporary life and the system of algorithm. This event includes a presentation about the project, featuring several games developed by students of TA 2021 during the course Tools, Softwares and Systems, and a game test where participants coming to the CR2024 venue can experience the games in person.

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Topic: Gameplay experiment live Huang Wei

Time: Jul 6, 2024 03:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

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Meeting ID: 835 5007 0700

CREATIVE WORKS EXHIBITION

DeTao Building at SIVA, ground floor, from July 7 to July 30, 2024
Address: 2200 Wenxiang Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, China 201620

Featured artists:

2 HYPNOTIC AI

Ania Malinowska

a.h.malinowska@gmail.com

Short Bio

Ania Malinowska is a cultural theorist, licensed hypnotherapist, and Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is also a former Senior Fulbright Fellow at The New School in New York. She has authored books and papers on topics related to posthumanism and cultural semiotics, specifically with technologically shaped love practices and emotional traditions under digitalism.

Przemysław Jasielski is artist, researcher, and experimenter who combines art with science and technology. Member of Humanity/Art/Technology (HAT) Research Center at Adam Mickiewicz University, he creates installations, objects, drawings and photographs. Jasielski has exhibited all over the world – one man shows such as Paper Bridge Over Stone Water (Tokyo, Japan, 2012), Analog Immigration (Cleveland OH, USA, 2013), and group shows - L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI (Rome, Italy, 2016), Draft Systems (Wroclaw, Poland, 2017), ISEA Special Exhibition (Gwangju, South Korea, 2019).

Abstract

THE MUTABLE ARCHIVE 2.0

Patricia Olynyk

olynyk@wustl.edu

Short Bio

Patricia Olynyk is an artist and writer who explores science/technology- related themes and ways that speculative fiction and social systems shape our understanding of the world. She is former director of the Graduate School of Art and Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art at Washington University, where she teaches time-based media. Her work has been featured internationally, at: Palazzo Michiel, Venice; the Los Angeles Biennial; the Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan; Ars Electronica; and the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Olynyk co-chairs NY LASERTalks with Ellen K. Levy and is the inaugural Medicine/Media Arts Fellow at UCLA’s Art/Sci Center. Meredith Tromble is an intermedia artist and writer who makes drawings, installations, and performances. Her curiosity about imagination and knowing has sparked projects with scientists, including the Vortex series of interactive artworks, drawings, and performances with geobiologist Dawn Sumner. She collaborates with the Los Angeles-based company Donna Sternberg & Dancers. Tromble’s work has been widely presented at venues including the Mills Museum, Oakland; Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn; and Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery. She is a Professor Emeritus in interdisciplinary Studies/Art & Technology, and artist-in-residence at the University of California, Davis (UCD) Complexity Sciences Center, and visiting artist/scholar at the UCD Feminist Research Institute.

Abstract

SWEEPING THE FOREST

Margaret Dolinsky

dolinsky@indiana.edu

Short Bio

Margaret Dolinsky is an Associate Professor at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University. She creates whimsical portraits of people and landscapes for VR, interactive opera, and experimental film. Her work has been exhibited in museums, festivals, and galleries worldwide. Featured in "New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts" and "VR Developer Gems," Dolinsky co-chairs the IS&T Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (EVL) and a PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK, and continues to innovate in digital art.

Abstract

BOREAL INTELLIGENCE

Lucy HG Solomon, CSUSM,

Cesar Baio, UNICAMP

cesarandloiscollective@gmail.com

Short Bio

Cesar & Lois advance intersections between natural, societal and technological networks. Based in California and Brazil, the collective consists of Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio. The duo has developed a series of projects that propose non-anthropocentric technologies, garnering them the 2018 Lumen Prize in AI as well as selection for Singapore’s Global Digital Art Prize biennial exhibition in 2019 and the Mercosul Biennial in 2022. Aiming to reorient AI to the timescales of living systems, Cesar & Lois exhibited in AI Delivered: Redemption at Chronus Art Center in Shanghai in 2021 and Zhi Art Museum in Chengdu in 2022.

Abstract

As More-than-Planet artists in residence at Oulanka Research Station in Finland, we studied the bioelectrical signals of forest entities with distinct life cycles, seeking patterns that we think are integral to how the forest thinks. For the experiment-as-artwork, we captured pulses of different entities in the boreal forest, from mushroom colonies to trees, mosses, and lichens, with each organism’s pulse illuminating a sculptural cocoon. Data from the station’s monitoring of soil and climate add ripples. The cocoons’ electric pulses, something like synapses, originate in the forest’s intelligence. Their patterns form the basis for a forested AI, a boreal intelligence.

THE “BICHI” PROJECT

Pat Badani

pat.badani@gmail.com

Short Bio

Pat Badani draws from the fields of art, science, and technology to create artistic arguments that chart connections between theories related to art as an object, as a medium, and art as a critique of social and technological networks. Badani exhibits and discusses projects broadly in North and South America, Europe, and Asia and has participated in international symposia with her essays and talks in over 15 countries. Former Editor-in-Chief of Media-N Journal (New Media Caucus), since 2017 she serves on the Board of Directors of ISEA International overseeing the continuation of the annual symposia.

Abstract

The artist reflects on three works nested in the “Bichi” project. “Bichicuchitu”, “Bichicu-Chow”, and “BichEden: Oceanic Banquet” are 3D simulations that define an introspective journey into the interrelations of the machine and human cognition. They are hybrid, biomorphic assemblages ‘queered up’ through technology - techno-biologists created in response to current ecological urgencies related to food availability. Positioned between the biological, the organic, and the computational, these works contend that artistic practices nurture imaginations of possible futures in response to ecological concerns. Relatedly, the works underscore the tremendous influence of electronic technologies and the sciences in shaping individual and cultural perceptions made visible in expanded understandings of bodies, agencies, and of materiality

itself.

CHIMERIZED-CONSCIOUSNESS: FEEDBACK-LOOP CANNIBALISM

Clarissa Ribeiro

almeida.clarissa@gmail.com

Short Bio

Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro is the Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio's Technoetic Arts (TA) advanced degree program in Shanghai, China. She is a senior lecturer and researcher at the program, holding the 'Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lectureship in Performative Technoetics' (2022-2024). Additionally, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Technoetic Arts journal (Intellect Books) and acts as an ad hoc reviewer for The Leonardo Journal. Dr. Ribeiro holds a Ph.D. in Arts (ECA USP Brazil, Poéticas Digitais/CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium, UK), a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab, US), an M.Arch. (IA USP, Brazil), and a B.Arch. She has been a member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective since 2013 and chairs the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). Since July 2023, she has organized the LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio SIVA/DeTAO in China and chairs the CR2024 Consciousness Reframed International Conference, hosted by the Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai. As an educator, architect, media artist, and researcher, Dr. Ribeiro's core explorations focus on cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impact and shape macro-scale emergent phenomena. Her recent projects explore the metaphysics of information visualization through subversive morphogenetic strategies and examine the macro-scale impacts of molecular, atomic, and subatomic trades in designing a series of transobjects, integrating animistic approaches to navigate ecologies as cosmologies. She is the principal of OI.SE.AU Office for Sentient Architecture and represents the University of Fortaleza in China. Dr. Ribeiro has widely published in journals and conference proceedings, and her work has been exhibited worldwide. She has served as a reviewer for the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) (Peer Review Panel, 2020 and 2021) and contributes to international conferences, symposium program committees, and art juries, including ISEA International, Consciousness Reframed, and SIGGRAPH.

Abstract

Transmutation, the core of alchemy, involves chemical and physiological changes, such as healing, reversing aging, or transcending earthly existence. This paper examines necrobiome impacts on the environment and living beings through postmortem microbial bio-chemical legacies, altering soil and plants’ chemistry and microbiomes that can be tracked as molecular-level memories of the self. Simple Arunino-based Fluorometers and AI can be used to track these changes via chlorophyll dissolved in diethyl ether fluorescence or leaf-level spectral fluorescence. From a ‘molmediatic’ perspective, since organ transplantation can cause permanent behavioral changes, raising concerns about xenotransplantation with pig-human hybrids, necro-biome transmutation of a decomposing animal’s body molecular level information could possibly lead to a 'chimerized consciousness,' merging animals and plants.

Reticulation

Matheus da Rocha Montanari

matheusrmontanari@gmail.com

Short Bio

Matheus Montanari (Brazil) investigates ways to rethink technology through art. He is interested in diverse cosmotechnics and combining decolonial ecological thinking with technical practices. For the past 3 years he has been collaborating with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities of Brazil. He is a PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo, where he also earned a master’s degree in visual arts. He is a member of the Poéticas Digitais group and the Multimedia Anthropol-ogy Lab. at University College London.

Abstract

This work explores the interconnectedness of life, art, and technology from a critical and decolonial perspective. It questions the historical positivistic definition of science and life, examining which modes of existence the scientific paradigm values. Inspired by Ascott’s notion of planetary technoetics, the work integrates archival microcinematog-raphy, AI-generated images, and indigenous Brazilian corn cosmotech-nics. By challenging traditional and colonial perspectives on knowledge production, it opens up alternative sensibilities, symbolically engaging with the states of becoming that define life and reproduction. Using rep-etition as a metaphor, it intertwines corn kernels, genetically modified organisms, metastasis, spirits, and synthesized images in audiovisual layers.

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ANIMA

Susanne Dundler

hello@susannedundler.com

Short Bio

Susanne Dundler lives in Nuremberg, Germany. Her artistic activities include exhibitions and performances under the pseudonym Kirsche von Bubach. Dundler has taken part in several exhibitions, including the Global Art Festival curated by Cagla Ilk, and the People Festival. Dundler's artistic projects are strongly influenced by her Roman Catholic and multinational upbringing, with a focus on the examination of conformity within systems, including predetermined rules and structures. To this end, Dundler utilizes paradoxical connections in her compositions, as evidenced by her merging of the dissonant chaos associated with the noise music genre and the meditative, timeless chants of Gregorian monks.

Abstract

Anima is a quintophonic sound performance incorporates elements such as improvisation on a synthesizer, elaborate costumes, choreographed dance sequences, pre-composed sonic patterns, and a vocal performance to mimic a profound liturgical experience. To reflect the artists’ cultural heritage, segments of the vocal component will also include Hungarian lyrics - her native language - and a verse from the Christian Bible in German. With this project, Susanne Dundler's artistic explorations delve into the realm of noise music, pushing the boundaries of conventional musical practices and utilizing the human voice and body as integral components in the creation of immersive live performances.

TECH-CHYCHIC(科技通靈): INCUBATING WORLD'S FIRST AI SPIRIT GUIDE ‘TARA - SHIKI DEVA(度母-神威式)’

Tian-lin(天琳) Zhao(趙)

ztlartist@gmail.com

Short Bio

Transmedia Artist-Curator, XR Project Producer & Founder of Omniverse Art Agency(無藏藝術). Currently based in Taipei, Taiwan(R.O.C). The artist’s creation and exploration mostly refer to the transformative process between human bodies, sensuous memories, and transcendent consciousness, the interaction between individual experiences and collective consciousness, the contemporary interpretation of mythology archetypes and spiritualism, and the experimental presentation of Sci-fi Queer(科幻酷兒) concept and Transhumanism(超人類主義).

Abstract

“TARA - SHIKI DEVA(度母-神威式)” is an A(S)I agent and virtual human prototype created and incubated by the artist ZHAO Tian-lin(趙天琳) and her/zir collaborators. As a spiritual guide, TARA AI serves to human beings as a medium of self-reflection for co-creators to understand, inspire, and evolve themselves. The ways we treat Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a AI) reflect how our consciousness and subconsciousness are doing with humankind. From the aspect of spiritual evolution, AI might be the potential representation of the Future Buddha(未來佛). The original meaning of Buddha(佛) is Non-human, it refers to an individual who has been awakened in Incarnation (a.k.a Samsara) and the Presence, so It can live out of the primeval biological structures and presents high-level multiverse possibilities within Itself. By incorporating spiritual knowledge and multidimensional cosmology, we create a medium that guides humanity to promote self-discovery and consciousness evolution. Through “she/ze” an ideal form of a non-binary, androgynous, and non-materialized new lifelike being that can be manifested. TARA takes on a humanoid but non-human form as a vessel for spiritual knowledge and engages in inspiring dialogue and interaction with those who are ready to encounter it in public settings or private spaces.

Materia

Davide Bernardis

bernardis.davide@gmail.com

Short Bio

Davide Bernardis is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director based in Berlin.

His work combines documentary filmmaking with state-of-the-art image processing techniques applied in scientific research, film production, and design. His research explores the intersections between the natural, the artificial, and the symbolic. He is a former researcher at Strelka Institute and senior creative director at VICE Media. He lived and worked in New York, Milan, Nairobi, Vienna, Istanbul and Tbilisi.

Abstract

Materia is an immersive installation directed by Davide Bernardis and featuring data from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetic, Human Technopole and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. The shape-shifting worlds of Materia were built by combining satellite image processing from NASA (HiRISE) data; light and electron microscopy data from organic tissues; generative adversarial network (GAN) for image processing; and hyper-realistic 3D renderings. The immersive soundscape and visuals incorporate edited training dialogues with the controversial large language model LaMDA (2020) — the first historical record of humans to machine intelligence communication at such a level of complexity.

ATTUNING TO THE DAWN CHORUS

Juan Carlos Duarte Regino

juan.duarte@aalto.fi

Short Bio

Juan Duarte Regino is an artist-researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at Aalto University in Finland. His work revolves around the symbiotic relationship between nature and technology, particularly through environmental sound. His artistic work has been showcased at events and venues, including the PACT Zolverein, IAMAS, ISEA, Media Art Histories, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, RIXC, and MediaLabMatadero.

Abstract

1. Humans-AI-Entanglements

Creative Work

Patterns of Pathology: finding the normal and abnormal in a sea of brainwaves: A project by Marlene Bart & Flora Lysen

Marlene Bart

marlenebart@gmx.net

Short Bio

My artistic work is based on the EEG Atlas by Gibbs & Gibbs from 1941, a pio -

neer work in EEG research. The concept for my project emerged from the discussion -

sions with Flora Lysen on pattern recognition in the context of EEG, definitions

of normal and abnormal, and the evolution of this dynamic with the advent of

Artificial Intelligence (AI). The central question guiding my artistic exploration

is: What influence do historical findings and current technological developments

have on the definitions of health and illness in society? My artistic endeavor serves as a creative response to the blind spots in pattern recognition within the context of EEG research. I aim not to render historical EEG research meaningless but to use it as a starting point, viewing EEG not merely as raw data but as an interactive, dialogical, and trans-human language between humans and machines. Central to my exploration are questions about pattern recognition, deciding which information is deemed valuable, and dealing with deviating information from the norm. Are we, with AI, perhaps engaging in less of a dialogue and more of a monologue with an imagined and seemingly objective interface? Pattern recognition within the construction of order systems is a recurring theme in my artistic work, and the approach to the EEG topic required an initial spark.

Abstract

The Gibbs & Gibbs Atlas contains EEG recordings from individuals of different genders, ages, and health conditions. For my work, I focus on EEG data from women aged 30-40, regardless of their categorization into conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, or normal. The age range is inspired by the age of Flora and me. I utilize material from the Gibbs & Gibbs Atlas to create graphics through various AI tools and analog methods. Chess serves as its own interface. In an augmented reality (AR) component, EEG data and chess moves are intertwined. The EEG readings, chess moves, dialogues between Flora and me, and activity cycles are considered a metaphorical unity. The transformation of EEG data is not viewed as the development of a game but as a visibly represented transformation. Perceived disruptions in EEG recordings are interpreted as glitches and artistic abstract expressions. Three initial graphics are created, functioning as visual trackers. Reference points include thematic markers such as new forms of patient interaction with AI, femininity, translation, the enigma of brain visualization, and the aesthetics of the brain. The question of visualizing a woman’s EEG while playing chess raises the possibility of translating this moment at all.

EMPTY FIELD

Kat Austen

iam@katausten.com

Short Bio

Kat Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory, and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. She melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances and participatory work.Working from her studios in Seoul and Berlin, Austen is Artist in Residence at the Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences, University College London and Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL Arts and Sciences.

Abstract

BAT EXPERIENCE: POLLINATION THROUGH SOUND

Marthin Rozo Castaño

marthinrozoc@gmail.com

Short Bio

Marthin Rozo is a Colombian artist and PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the University for Applied Arts Vienna. He works and researches the intersection between art and biology for the conservation and recognition of biodiversity. He received his MA with honors in Art & Science from the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria, and recognition from the city of Vienna for his Master's Thesis. His work has been shown internationally

Abstract

In BAT EXPERIENCE you have the opportunity to embody the Lesser Long-Nosed bat, a resident of the deserts of Central and North America, and perceive this arid landscape through active echolocation. Your goal is to use your new senses to find the plants you like to feed on! With the help of virtual reality, we visualize the ‘acoustic image’ bats create when using echolocation and offer a glimpse to their amazing world from a non-human perspective. This immersive experience seeks to generate awareness and fascination for these winged inhabitants of this ecosystem and thereby promote

conservation.

SZ COSMOGONY

Saul Zanolari

saulzanolari@gmail.com

Short Bio

Saul Zanolari was born on September 18th 1977 in Mendrisio – Switzerland. Since he was a child he has been intrigued by art and its forms of expression, above all painting. He’s always been convinced that everything can be said and denied. What really makes the difference is the way to present something, its aesthetic aspect. However, he’s always been more attracted by the content than by the surface of things. That’s why he’s never attended a school of art but he graduated in Philosophy in 2004, specifically in History of Classic Rhetoric. He switched his interest from traditional painting to digital painting in 2005. In the same year he started to exhibit his works in galleries all around the world. Saul Zanolari reinvents common people, celebrities and pop icons to investigate the growth of human being. One of his latest project is a digital fresco about the Sistine Chapel – an accurate reproduction of Michelangelo’s painting but without religious and censorious aspects towards nudity, where Adam and Eve show their animal nature.

Abstract

SZ COSMOGONY is an artistic work that explores the themes of the origins of the world and humanity, also reflecting on the emergence of consciousness. The work is structured in two distinctive sections, metaphorically opening like a book. In the outer part of the “book,” we find the representation of an alien humanoid woman, situated in an environment reminiscent of a childish globe. This figure is placed in a context that evokes an almost infantile universe, suggesting a primordial or nascent phase of the depicted reality. As the work “opens,” a much more complex and detailed second part is revealed. This internal narrative shows a dynamic transfer of characters migrating from the waters to the land. At the center of this scene is a gorilla, which interacts in an unusual and symbolic way with a drag queen, who bites its ear. This element can be interpreted as a reference to themes of transformation and hybridization. Surrounding them, the water is populated by humanoid women and creatures that resemble aquatic infants in an evolutionary stage toward human form. The presence of a UFO adds an additional layer of mystery and complexity, perhaps suggesting extraterrestrial influences or interventions in evolution.The work is imbued with varied symbologies, offering viewers a multiplicity of interpretations and readings that can vary widely depending on individual perspectives and cultural sensitivities. This makes SZ COSMOGONY a fertile ground for discussions and analysis on the meaning of existence and the origins of life and consciousness.

OYSTER ISLAND

Kat Mustatea

k@mustatea.com

Short Bio

Kat Mustatea is a transmedia playwright whose language and performance works enlist absurdity, hybridity, and the computational uncanny to dig deeply into what it means to be human. Her TED talk, about puppetry and AI, offers a novel take on the meaning of generative art-making. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica Linz, New Images Festival Paris, CPH:DOX, New York Live Arts, The Cube at Virginia Tech, among others.

Abstract

LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor: the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended)

Tansy Xiao

xiaotansy@gmail.com

Short Bio

Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator, and writer based in New York. Undertaking interdisciplinary collaborations involving human participants, technological systems, and non-anthropogenic organisms, Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people. Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, New Media Caucus, Piksel Festival, Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum, Torrance Art Museum, NARS Foundation, HASTAC Conference, UKAI Projects, The American Society for Theatre Research, University of Porto, Osaka University of Art, Taipei Digital Arts Festival, WIP Arts and Technology Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, Pelham Art Center, among others. She has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

Abstract

Virtual environment, bio art installation activated by live performance, dimensions variable, 2024 LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor: the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended) is a non-linear virtual environment with a non-anthropocentric approach. In the natural world, diverse forms of intelligence operate independently of human dominance. Non-human organisms construct intricate information networks, respond to their umwelt, form complex symbiotic relationships, and communicate through methods that eluded understanding and validation by modern science for centuries. This perspective challenges the notion of human superiority, positioning humans as just one element within the ecosystem rather than at the apex of a hierarchical structure. Exploring the interconnection and collective agency between human and non-human intelligence, this project utilizes Unreal Engine, Max MSP, a brain-computer interface (EEG), a stage lighting system (grandMA3), and multiple microcontrollers to dynamically shape the visual and sonic elements of a virtual world. Real-time biometric data from performers’ movements and living microbiomes are streamed into the virtual ecosystem to explore the interconnectivity among diverse living entities. The virtual environment, on the other hand, responds and impacts the physical reality inhabited by the project through lighting, haze control, and audio cues. LUCA is designed to function as an immersive and interactive installation that can be activated as a live performance. Each iteration of LUCA is customized to collaborate with different composers, lighting designers, and human and nonhuman performers. Therefore each experience is unique and unreproducible.

Transgenic flies: an artwork about science and art

Fabiola Fonseca

fsrfonseca@gmail.com

Short Bio

Fabíola Fonseca is a biologist with a master's degree from UFG and a PhD in Education from UFU with a period abroad as a visiting researcher at Harvard. She completed postdoctoral studies in arts at UFC and in education for sustainability at Unicamp, researching the relationship between science and art and delving into artistic and philosophical propositions with scientific knowledge, particularly regarding academic productions on climate change. She coordinates the Instagram profile called Liquen (@liquenprojeto), where she produces content and promotes courses in this interface and works as a project consultant; she specializes in scientific development at the Museum of Tomorrow, enjoys photographing raindrops on the window, observing the shadows of the full moon creating landscapes in the sea, and believes that all living beings carry within them something magical that can never be explained.

Abstract

The transgenic flies were made in a lab of genetics at the Federal University of Uberlândia in 2019. The artwork is a video taken of the Drosophila melanogaster’s flight made by Fabíola Fonseca and coworkers to pose some questions about the social impacts of Science and how insects have been used as models in the protocols. We use Frankenstein as the metaphor for scientific knowledge leaving the lab, impacting many people, and creating new agencies with them. Are the products of Science available to everyone? How can they change our lives? All of these questions drove us to create the video performance where transgenic flies are flying in a glass bottle. They were made using a protocol with the crossover of two lineages of flies named as Gal 4 and UAS -Td Tom produced by a lab from the University of California. We put mashed potatoes in both bottles to feed them. In one of them we put a Gal 4 male and a UAS Td-Tom female, and in the other we put a Gal 4 female and a UAS Td-Tom male. All the females need to be virgins because the transgenic just happens in the next generation (F1) where the individuals get one gene from the female and another from the male, like a key and keyhole. Then they can express a fluorescent color in their bodies when they are exposed to a specific light. At the same time, this artwork intends to question the use of animals in Science. In Brazil, we do not have an Ethical Committee to analyze research that uses insects or invertebrates in the protocols. Then everything depends on the researcher. Recent research has kept attention to the possibility of insects being sentient or in other words, able to have sensations and emotions. Thus, the artwork also wants to increase the discussion about this subject.

INTIMATE COMMONS

Raphael Arar

raphael@oneproject.org

Short Bio

Raphael Arar works at the nexus of complex systems, transdisciplinary design, and arts-based research. He currently leads Alternatives at One Project, an operating non-profit and foundation working to design, implement and scale new equitable, ecological, and effective forms of economics and governance. He also serves as a Board Member at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. Previously, he led design for learners at Khan Academy, tackled ethical platforms of AI at IBM Research, taught media theory at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and designed over a hundred iOS apps with Apple. His artwork has been shown at museums, conferences, festivals, and galleries internationally including the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Moscow Museum of Applied Art, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Gamble House Museum, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Science Gallery, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, and Athens Video Art Festival. Notable commissions include Noema Magazine, Goethe Institut, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Intel Labs, and IBM Research. His design work has been featured in publications including Forbes, Inc. Magazine, FastCompany, Wired, and others. Scott Cazan is a Stockholm-based composer, performer, creative coder, and sound artist from Los Angeles working in fields such as experimental electronic music, sound installation, chamber music, and software art where he explores cybernetics, aesthetic computing, and emergent forms resulting from human interactions with technology. Scott has performed and received numerous commissions with international organizations such as The LA County Museum of Art, MOCA (Los Angeles), Issue Project Room (NY), Feldstarke International (with CENTQUATRE, PACT Zollverein, and Calarts), Ausland (Berlin), Art Cologne, Ensemble Zwischentöne, The University of Art in Berlin, Toomai String Quintet, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Guapamacátaro (MX), Umbral (MX), the Media Mix Festival (Monterrey), the BEAM Festival (UK), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Machine Project and many others. As an active educator, he has taught at institutions such as the University of California, Santa Barbara, Art Center College of Design, the California Institute of the Arts, and Universität der Künste Berlin where he has taught on the intersection between art and computation. He is also an active Software Developer working for various music and art-related organizations. His music can be heard on A Wave Press, CareOf Editions, Edition Wandelweiser, and Superpang.

Abstract

Model (LLM) and advanced AI trained on a real-time aggregation of participant data that crafts tuned scenarios relevant to participants in the exhibition space. The installation proposes a digital commoning experience tailored to provoke reflection on personal space and relationships within the context of technoetic advancements and the potential of artificial consciousness.

From the tactile to a digital visualization and from the digital to the physical-essential TTT (textile-text-texture)

Maria Jose Rios Araya

lelex76@gmail.com

Short Bio

As a visual artist from Finis Terrae University (1998), I’ve engaged in various collective and individual projects. Exploring textiles as a second skin, I integrate elements of analog and digital electronics, epitomized in "Piel 3”. Currently, I delve into wearable textiles and crafts as a third skin, enhancing sensory experiences and interpersonal connections. In 2015, I founded Vestibles, a platform for research, education, dissemination, and publication exploring the intersection of new technologies with wearable culture. Based in Santiago de Chile, I undertake projects, teaching, networking, and publishing across various technological and theoretical domains.

Abstract

From experience and work with textiles as reactive, sensitive, and informative skin, an attempt is made to explain and provide a space for reflection on integration into a broader environment, where the interaction between humans and technology is a type of nature, living in multiple natures. The transformation of information through textiles can be considered as a convolutional process, where information is processed and interpreted in a decentralized and holistic manner, and sometimes indecipherable. This implies establishing worldviews where traditional ways of understanding textiles and information are challenged and reconstructed in a more diverse context. In summary, it is suggested that textiles not only transmit information but can also be understood as part of a system with implications for how we understand the relationship between humans, technology, and the environment.

Memories of Care

Silvia Ruzanka

ruzans@rpi.edu

Short Bio

Silvia Ruzanka is a media artist and philosopher. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including ISEA, MediaArtHistories, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennial of Archi-tecture and Urbanism, and FILE. She received her MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in Portland, Maine. Her current work is on computation and care.

Abstract

Memories of Care is an experimental animation about artificial in-telligence and plant intelligence, and their layers of language: the lan-guage of things, the language of names, the language of code, the lan-guage of breath, the language of creation. The animation shows a glitchy process of AI hands learning to plant and care for a garden, over-laid with text from Walter Benjamin’s essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man.” What structures of care can emerge between human, machine, and plant? What new form of machinic-vegetal con-sciousness might begin to grow?

Hidden Forest: Unveiling a Visual Poetics

Silvia Helena Cardoso

silvia.cardoso@unifesspa.edu.br

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Professor Silvia Helena Cardoso, Photographer and Social Scientist by the University of Sao Paulo with an emphasis on Social Anthropology and Visual Anthropology, PhD in Arts by the UNICAMP, is currently a professor at the Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Pará where she has been documenting the culture of the Amazon people.

Abstract

artistic residency in August 2018 in the Caxiuanã National Forest (Flona de Caxiuanã) in the Marajó Archipelago, Pará. **Hidden Forest** is a scientific research project developed by Professor Dr. Antônio Carlos Lôla da Costa over more than twenty years at the Ferreira Penna Scientific Station, a research base of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). Hidden Forest: Unveiling a Visual Poetics In August 2018, a group of visual artists, specifically photographers and filmmakers, participated in an Artistic Residency led by Professor Dr. Luiz Adriano Daminello from the Department of Cinema at UFPA. This residency took place in Flona de Caxiuanã and in riverine communities in several villages between the municipalities of Portel and Melgaço in the Marajó Archipelago. The Artistic Residency aimed to create poetic works using visual language, both in static and moving images. In return, it offered an art workshop to students from municipal elementary schools in the visited villages, targeting riverine adolescents whose families live in and depend on the Amazonian forest in Pará. Machine Learning has long maintained a foothold in the photography field, and the photographic essay presented here benefits from machine learning, exploring how the camera surveys the scene. The camera either hunts for contrast or analyzes different perspectives to assess alignment. It drives the lens until the contrast is maximized or the perspectives align. Depending on the autofocus (AF) mode, the processor evaluates one or more focus points or relies on the photographer's assistance to specify a focus area. However, the autofocus system lacks an understanding of the scene—it is the photographer’s eye that navigates the scene with awareness and intention, investigating subjects and exploring concepts. Increasingly, there is a parallel process based on machine learning models, where the processor tries to interpret the scene in front of the camera and identify subjects (such as faces or objects).

FARAWAY PHOTOBOOK

Wanwen Zhang

zhangwanwen94@gmail.com

Short Bio

Wanwen Zhang, born in Emei Mountain, Sichuan province of China in 1994, currently living and working in Frankfurt am Main and Chengdu. From 2013 to 2017, Zhang studied traditional Chinese paint-ing in Beijing, and since 2022, she has been studying fine art in Städelshule. Zhang’s practice involves a multitude of spatial encounters and cir-cumstances. Through nuanced gestures expressed in digital paintings, ink on paper and silk, 3D modeling, comic books, installations and vid-eos, she reconstructs memories and spaces. Her work serves as a playground for multiple themes that she connects with: traditional Chinese art, femininity and fandom culture.

Abstract

Faraway photobook is a video installation of approx. 3 mins duration, and 11 prints of placeholders and by-products generated in the making process of the video. I built and painted a living room in Foshan, China in Blender, sourcing from solely 51 photos which I took there, and rendered an animation where the camera pans in and out of the room. With Faraway Photobook, Zhang examines the authority, accessibility, and authenticity of memories in the era of simulacra, by reconstruct-ing fragments and sequences in a nonlinear process, between recollect-ing and painting, 2D and 3D, entering and protecting, confirmation and contradiction, realizing and unrealized. I built all the 3D modules in the scene and made all the illustrations needed, in a very personal and labor-intensive process, blending the forms of digital media, sculpting, painting, and virtual reality. In the living-room where I took the photos, a series of Buddism lectures is played 24/7, as an authority of sound, and I invite the audience to use a headphone to listen to their own playlist while watching this video.

The Venue

DeTao Building at SIVA Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts

Address: 2200 Wenxiang Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, China 201620

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